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#Facebook Pushes Its #Llama4 #AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

#Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and #AI image generators can only remix and regurgitate the information in data those technologies are trained on, is a wellestablished fact that researchers and academics have been warning about since their inception.
#maga #right #bothsides #llm #facialrecognition

404media.co/facebook-pushes-it

404 Media · Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
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Geriatric Gardener

“The BBC gave nearly 60% of its coverage to just ONE pro-assisted suicide lobby group”

by Hannah Sharland in The Canary @thecanaryuk @BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4

“When it comes to BBC coverage of assisted suicide – or anything, really – the foremost UK public broadcaster should rebrand itself the British Bias Corporation and be done with it”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · The BBC gave nearly 60% of its coverage to just ONE pro-assisted suicide lobby groupFar from platforming a range of voices in the assisted suicide debate, the BBC has actually just been platforming one: Dignity in Dying
#Press#UK#BBC
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PrivacyDigest

The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr & the FCC’s news #distortion policy

#FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is taking a hard line against #broadcastTV stations accused of #bias against #Republicans & Pres #Trump. To pressure broadcasters, Carr is invoking the rarely enforced #news distortion policy that was developed starting in the late 1960s & says the FCC should consider revoking #broadcast licenses.
#tv #takedown #freespeech
> #maga definition is disagreement

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr delivers a speech on a stage while standing in front of a microphone and gesturing with his hand.
Ars Technica · The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policyBy Jon Brodkin
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Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

I am reading a peer-reviewed article that describes a study that featured 5 drivers; 4 male, 1 female. It includes the following analysis:

"It shows that male is more impulsive and daring in operating their vehicles by 22% than a female who is more hesitant and less daring, which is consistent with the physiological nature of women."

Do I reject all further findings or?

#Bias#SamplingBias#Sexism
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RDN

A new study finds that people tend to overestimate the size of small demographic groups because of cognitive errors in estimation of small proportions, not necessarily because of misinformation, ignorance, or animus. The authors emphasize that their findings do not negate the existence of those effects.

pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas. (not open access)

Preprint at brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_

#Science#Psychology#Cognition
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Kat O’Brien

Really interesting essay today by Caroline Criado Perez (if you haven’t read her book, Invisible Women, I highly recommend) on why she doesn’t think imposter “syndrome” exists, but rather that women feeling like imposters is a very rational response to a culture that treats women in many roles as imposters. There’s a perfection trap.

open.substack.com/pub/caroline
#women #bias #data

Invisible Women · The Perfection TrapBy Caroline Criado Perez
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Scott Pfitzinger

Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to spy on the social media activity of immigrant students.

It’s an ideological purge of foreign students that was revealed in a new directive.

skepticallibrarian.com/2025/03

The Skeptical Librarian · Rubio Orders State Department to Spy on Immigrant StudentsIt's the next step in this ridiculous and immoral attack on non-white people. Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to spy on the social media activity of immigrant students. It's an ideological purge of foreign students that was revealed in a new directive that was leaked. "The Trump administration is requiring that foreign students [...]
#bias#ideology#fascism
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